[RTTY] LoTW contest issues

[Michael Keane K1MK]

At 02:09 PM 10/15/2007, Phil Cooper wrote:
>If, as per the exchange detail, you sent State/Province/DX then this will be
>a part of the LoTW download anyway, so why bother logging it?

No reason at all. Any exchange details (sent or received) that you do 
log are never uploaded to LoTW. The State/Province/DX that you 
download in the LoTW report comes from the certificate and Station 
Location used by the other station in their upload to LoTW. No direct 
connection with any exchange that was sent (or not sent) over the air.

>It also says that "Scoring for the LoTW contests will be automatically
>generated by the sponsor once your log is submitted". So why do we need to
>work out mults, points etc?

Well, you could ask the same question about any contest that employs 
the Cabrillo format log submission and the sponsor assigns points, 
identifies multipliers and computes the score.

We don't need to work out points and multipliers in most contests anymore.

73,
Mike K1MK

Michael Keane K1MK
k1mk at alum.mit.edu